THE CABINET: Exodus

By last week,
with Congress adjourned, the great summer exodus from the capital was
well under way. The Government was running on slack steam. President
Hoover was, as he put it, "condemned" to remain in the White
House by public business. The Cabinet, always loyal to a new President, accepted condemnation with him. Not so the emissaries of foreign
powers.

Dr. Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the German
Ambassador, sought relief from Washington's heat at Hot Springs, Va.,
making occasional trips back to the capital only when...